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Specialism in copyright and rights management
Over the last 10 years, Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy has helped a number of organisations to embedded IP policies, manage and organise their rights, assess their risks, as well as develop accessible toolkits to handle compliance issues and the exploitation of their rights.
Clients have included a variety of public sector bodies - across cultural heritage, HE and FE, Health, Government - as well as corporate and private companies:
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JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
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Various museums, archives and libraries
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JISC Digital Media
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Kings College London
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Digital Publishers
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Department for International Development
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The Strategic Content Alliance
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Collections Trust
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National Libraries for Health
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Palace of Westminster
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The Wellcome Trust
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The Bridgeman Art Library
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Natural History Museum
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The British Library
Naomi Korn
Naomi Korn is one of the Partners of Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy and an experienced IP Consultant. She takes a keen interest in digital licensing, rights management and rights exploitation. She works across the public sector, and in particular with museums, libraries and archives, Higher and Further Education institutions, as well as businesses and professional organisations to help them develop IP strategies and embed appropriate processes, procedures and policies. Naomi is also an experienced trainer and faciliatator. Naomi spent several years working as the Tate’s first Copyright Officer and has spent the last 10 years specialising in copyright.
Naomi is the lead consultant for the JISC (Joint Information Services Committee) IPR Consultancy, supporting JISC and its development programmes in the area of IPR and rights management. She works on this project with Professor Charles Oppenheim. She also works with Emma Beer on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) on their IPR and Licensing strand of work.
Naomi has contributed to a number of European projects and initiatives, including acting as the National Expert Advisor and copyright specialist to the EC funded EMII-DCF (European Museums Information Institute Distributed Content Framework) an and providing presentations on orphan works on behalf of the EC MILE and COMMUNIA projects. Her work in this field also includes providing IP Policy support and advice to the EC funded EDIT project, developing and producing a guide to copyright for e-content as part of the EC funded MINERVA project and contributing of a section on rights for the EC funded CALIMERA project that outlines best practice guidelines to museums, libraries and archives. Naomi is currently working with Meducator project developing IPR and licensing workflows relating to IPR and clinical content.
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Bernard Horrocks
Bernard Horrocks is Copyright Officer at the National Portrait Gallery and is an approved trainer in copyright for the Collections Trust and the Museums Association. Bernard is also an independent freelance consultant who has provided advice and training to a wide range of public and private clients nationally. Bernard specialises in copyright audits, risk assessment, best practice, due diligence and all aspects of artistic copyright. Bernard has practised in the intellectual property field since 1997 and has a postgraduate qualification in UK, EU and US Law of Copyright and Related Rights. Bernard has been working closely with Naomi and NKCC for a number of years.
Professor Charles Oppenheim BSc PhD DSc DipInfSc CertEd HonFCLIP FCLIP FRSA AUMIST
Charles Oppenheim has been Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University since 1998. He became Head of the Department of Information Science in 2006. Previously, he has held a variety of posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry, working for International Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters at various times. He has been involved in, and published widely on legal issues in information work since the mid 1970s.
Charles has been a member of the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and/or some of its committees since 1992. He is currently a member of the JISC Scholarly Publishing Working Group, the JISC Repositories Programme Advisory Group, JISC Publisher Action Group, and sits onthe JISC Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. He has worked on, or managed, a number of JISC Projects, including some on licences and copyright issues. Together with Naomi, he is part of the JISC IPR Consultancy, and consultant to the Strategic Content Alliance. He is also a copyright consultant to a number of private and public sector bodies. Charles is a member of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance.
Emma Beer
Emma Beer is Media Relations contact for ProQuest, a digital academic publisher based in Cambridge and works in association with NKCC. Emma has extensive programme management skills having worked for JISC and other providers of digital content for over 5 years. Prior to working with NKCC, Emma was the Manager of the Strategic Content Alliance, a digital partnership initiative for the United Kingdom involving the BBC, the British Library, Becta, JISC, Museums Libraries and Archives and the National Library for Health. The SCA invests in research and development work for digital content in the not-for-profit sector. Emma has previously worked in publishing, digital resources, broadcast archives, historical research and in an Intellectual Property law firm in Osaka, Japan.
Sponsorship:
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy is proud to be a sponsor of Collections Link the UK's National Advisory Service for Collections.
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy is part of the Collections Management Network www.cmnetwork.org.uk
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